Where to find Amp Wires

[Craig14122]

I cut my wires to short on my amp side when i hooked in a aftermarket amp and now i need to put my factory amp back in but i cannot use the wire harness. I've looked all over the internet and cannot find where to get them without getting the amp. Any clue on where to get them?

 

[617ricky]

Go search ebay for "amp wiring kit"

 

[Craig14122]

I tried that but only could find the wires that connect into the radio and not the amp

 

[617ricky]

Can you elaborate a little more on the situation? I have a 97 too with the stock amp, but when I put an aftermarket 1 in, I left the stock amp there and just got a bypass jumper cable - it's still there but doesn't power up.. Are you talking about those 2 harness plugs that go into the stock amp that you cut too short? I ran all new wiring and RCA's for my amp, so that's why I'm unsure of what you're talking about.

 

[97sprt4x4]

http://cgi.ebay.com/AMP-KIT-2000-WA...ultDomain_0?hash=item58832c6071#ht_5201wt_940

something like that? or do we have the wrong idea?

 

[Craig14122]

no i just need the wire harness off of a stock jbl amp. But i need the amp side not the radio side

 

[617ricky]

no i just need the wire harness off of a stock jbl amp. But i need the amp side not the radio side

ohh i see.. that part is probably gonna be tough to find, i'd go to a junkyard.. if you do you're gonna have to splice all the wires and extend them, cuz both of the plugs are attached to the wire bundle coming from the front.. how did you hook up a new amp using those wires anyways? i don't see how you could have used the power/ground wires, so it was just the audio signal right?

 

[Craig14122]

I kept the factory radio so i could keep the cd changer and such by just running all 8 wires from the speakers into the amp, ran a new 8g wire to the battery and to ground, also ran a 12v turn on to my wiper relays.

 

[617ricky]

oh I get it now.. yea honestly just go to a junkyard - that would be a really obscure part to find, just cuz it's attached directly to the wire bundle coming from the front of the car.. i was just thinking tho - if you got creative, you could maybe just get the bypass jumper cable, and somehow splice the wires coming from the front.. i'm not sure exactly how you'd do it, but here's the part I'm talking about..

http://tinyurl.com/y9vd592

EDIT: actually on 2nd thought, I don't think it would work as I pictured.. reason being, the plugs on the jumper cable aren't sized to plug into the amp - they plug into the plugs themselves.. But now I'm thinking, what did you do with those plugs?? You had to have cut them off to use the wires, right? If you still had them you could splice wire to extend them..

 

[Craig14122]

i cut them to close to reuse... i'm dumb

 

[617ricky]

Well like I suggested, just go to a junkyard... What's so obscure about it, is it's literally part of the factory wiring.. There's a couple plugs on that one end, but it goes all the way to the deck, speakers, cd changer, etc... They wouldn't sell that part anywhere, and if they did, it would be attached to all that other long wiring, and would be a LOT of money thru Ford.. When you find 1 at the junkyard tho, just make sure you leave yourself enough slack on the end to splice it, haha..

 

[agonz91]

so you cut ur power wire too short to install an aftermarket amp? well a quick fix to that is to use a fuse holder, w/ fuse of course, to attach another wire to ur existing wire. add on as much as u want well thats what id do if u still want the aftermarket sub n amp. adding another fuse to ur wire wont do any harm so dont worry about that.

 

[617ricky]

so you cut ur power wire too short to install an aftermarket amp? well a quick fix to that is to use a fuse holder, w/ fuse of course, to attach another wire to ur existing wire. add on as much as u want well thats what id do if u still want the aftermarket sub n amp. adding another fuse to ur wire wont do any harm so dont worry about that.

that's what i was thinking initially, but he did something different.. he cut the wire bundle going to the stock amp just to take the audio signal from the output speaker wires, and ran them to a new amp (with its own power/ground/remote wires).. now he wants to hook the stock amp back up, but the wires are too short to reach.. what makes it even more difficult, is he has to find the factory ford/jbl harness plugs that connect to the amp, and extend the existing wiring to the 2 plugs.. as i recommended the 1st and last place i went to look would be a junkyard, and seeing as he's somewhat near me in southern NH, i kno for sure there's quite a few in the area..